RemTech 2012 Presentations
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Pre-Conference Workshops
Facilities – End of Life … continuation
- Workshop Introduction – Presentation
Don Jakul, PHH ARC Environmental - Decommissioning and Demolition of Imperial Oil Gas Plants and sites north of 60 – Practical Experience & Lessons Learned
Dave Slade, Imperial Oil– Presentation
John Bertrand, Imperial Oil– Presentation
David Wrtykush, Golder Associates – Presentation - Pre-Demolition Abatement – Hazardous Materials Management for End-of-Life Projects – Presentation
PHH ARC Environmental, Paul Hammond - Nexen’s Balzac Abandonment & Reclamation – Program Update and lessons Learned – Presentation
Mark White and Andrew Hamilton, Nexen Inc. - “CLEAN” Gunnar Uranium Mine– Presentation
Lois Miller, SRC and Jason Kruczko, Quantum Murray
Licence to Spill? Regulatory and Environmental Law Highlights
- Contaminated Sites Overview and Updates (Civil and Regulatory)
Corbin Devlin, McLennan Ross LLP (Civil, Provincial Regulatory)– Presentation
Murray Heap, Environment Canada (Federal Regulatory) – Presentation - Shaken and Stirred: Hot Topics– Presentation
Lisa Semenchuk, McLennan Ross LLP - Enforcement and Prosecution Issues
Anna DeCarlo, Environment Canada (Regulator Perspective)– Presentation
Stuart Chambers, McLennan Ross LLP (Defence Perspective) – Presentation - Consultant Liability
Stuart Chambers, McLennan Ross LLP (Civil) – Presentation
Susan McRory, Alberta Special Prosecutions (Regulatory) – Presentation - Brownfield Remediation
Gavin Fitch, McLennan Ross LLP – Presentation
Paul Leong, City of Calgary – Presentation
Conference Technical Sessions
Quebec Perspective
- Comparing Efficiency and Treatment Cost for the Removal of Heavy End Petroleum Hydrocarbon and PAH Via Composting, Biopile and Soil Washing Remediation Techniques – Presentation
Eric Bergeron, Golder Associates - Sustainable Remediation and Brownfield Site Re-Development, St. Laurent, Quebec – Presentation
Francois Dube, LVM - Conducting Persulfate Chemical Oxidation of Organic Contaminants in Soil and Groundwater While Limiting the Sodium and Sulfate Outtake in the Aquifer – Presentation
Jean Pare, Chemco - In Situ Chemical Reduction for Remediation of Soil Containing Chlorinated Pesticides and Herbicides – Presentation
Stacey Telesz, FMC
Guidelines, Criteria and Analytical
- Remediation Guidelines for Tebuthiuron and Bromacil – Presentation
Kathryn Bessie EBA, A Tetra Tech Company - Ecological Risk Assessment Guidance and Site Closure for the Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan Program – Presentation
Murray Heap, Environment Canada - Considerations for Soil Selenium Guidelines and Results of Initial Plant Toxicity Testing – Presentation
Tyler Pediger, Equilibrium Environmental - Developing Remediation Guidelines for Hydrocarbons in Subsoil at Alberta Green Zone Sites – Presentation
Miles Tindal, Millennium EMS Solutions Ltd. - New Ultra-Trace Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) Analysis Methodology to Achieve Low Level Regulatory Requirements – Presentation
Patrick Novak, CARO Analytical - Challenges in the Source Identification and Aging of Extremely Weathered Petroleum Containing Soil Samples – Presentation
Deib Birkholz, ALS Environmental - Minimal Disturbance Brine Water and Oil Emulsion Spill Response in Northern Boreal Peatland Settings – Presentation
Mark Pickering, Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development - Sample Stability in Aqueous Samples – PFOS, PFOA and other Fluorinated Compounds – Presentation
Terry Obal, Maxxam
Modelling
- Passive Groundwater Plume Treatment using Oxidant-Based Reactive Barriers: Experimental and Modeling Studies – Presentation
Pamela Dugan, Carus Corporation - Maximizing the Use of 3-D Site Visualizations – Presentation
Kristen Todtz, Conestoga-Rovers & Associates - Challenges to Site-Specific Assessment at Salt and Fertilizer-Impacted Sites – Presentation
Scott Digel, Parsons - Maximizing the Capital Efficiency of Contaminated Upstream Oil and Gas Sites Assessments by Using Geostatistical Modeling Approach – Presentation
Lian Zhao, Integrated Environments (2006) Ltd.
In-Situ
- Pilot Test of Electrokinetic-Enhanced Bioremediation (EK-BIO) in a PCE NAPL Source Area with Low Permeability Materials – Presentation
James Wang, Geosyntec - Closing the Loop in In-Situ Remediation Using Conductivity Monitoring – Presentation
Emiel Dijkstra, Schlumberger Water Services - Integrated Approach to the Remediation of Chlorinated Organic Compounds in Low Permeability Soils – A Field Study– Presentation
Matthew Horlings, CH2M Hill - Injection Methods Optimize In-Situ Remedial Efficacy – Presentation
Jay Dablow, ERM NC, Inc. - In-situ Chemical Oxidation of Trichloroethylene in Clay Soil Using Rotating Dual Axis Soil Blending Technology – Presentation
William Caldicott, In Situ Oxidative Technologies, Inc. - In-Situ Remediation of Dissolved Chlorinated Hydrocarbons Via Enhanced Reductive Dechlorination – A Rail Yard Case Study – Presentation
Dawn Gabardi, Arcadis and LeeAnn Thomas, Canadian Pacific - Surgical In-Situ Chemical Oxidation Remediation Utilizing a High Resolution Site Characterization-Driven Approach to Optimize Reagent Delivery and Remediation Strategy – Presentation
Mike Mazzarese, Vironex, Inc. - Enhanced Bioremediation of Chlorinated Solvents in Fractured Media – Presentation
Daniel Griffiths, Parsons - Comparison of Approaches to Engineered In Situ Biogeochemical Transformation of Chlorinated Solvents – Presentation
Bruce Henry, Parsons - Biogeochemical Treatment of Organic and Inorganic Contaminants in Soil and Groundwater – Presentation
Ronnie Britto, Tetra Tech - Non-Dissolved Extractable Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Groundwater Samples – Presentation
John Halstead, Parsons - Biogeochemical Reductive Dechlorination of Chlorinated Solvent Plumes – Status of the Practice Shift from Biotic to Abiotic Degradation Pathways – Presentation
James Studer, InfraSUR LLC - The Affect of Salt Impacted Water on the Expansive Capability of Sodium Bentonite Clay – Bench Test Study – Presentation
Richard Geier, Stantec - Optimizing Oxidant Delivery for In-Situ Remediation – Presentation
Bruce Tunnicliffe, Vertex Environmental - In-Situ Chemical Oxidation (ISCO) Ozone Sparging for Treatment of Petroleum Hydrocarbon-Impacted Groundwater – Presentation
Ryan Dominquez, Parsons
British Columbia Perspective
- From Theory to Practice – The Do’s and Don’ts of Spill Response and Follow-up Risk Assessment/Risk Management Actions at Saline Water Release Sites in Boreal Peatland Environments – Presentation
Doug Bright, Hemmera - Rapid Remediation of Subsurface Organic Contaminants – a Contact Sport – Presentation
Harm Gross, Next Environmental Inc. - Fast Track – Remediation: Change Management at an Urban Brownfield Property, BC – Presentation
Loris Bertoncello, WorleyParsons - Design & Construction of a Sub Slab Depressurization System to Meet New BCMOE Soil Vapour Mitigation Requirements – Presentation
Stephen Sumsion, McCue Environmental Contracting
Site Assessment
- Detailed Ecological Risk Assessment in N.E. British Columbia: Wildlife Protection and Extractable Aliphatic Hydrocarbons – Presentation
Craig Harris, AECOM - Developing Conceptual Site Models for Environmental Site Assessment and Remediation – Presentation
Tai Wong, Parsons - Phase II Assessments and Phase III Remediation: A Brief History – Presentation
Mark Polet, Klohn Crippen Berger Ltd. and Chris Powter, Oil Sands Research and Information Network - Applications of Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) Systems for Remediation Projects – Presentation
Greg Lewis, Matrix Solutions
Salt Remediation
- Use of Non-Invasive Surface Geophysics for Managing Brine Releases –– Presentation
Brent Barker, Arcadis - Remediation of Salt-Impacted Soils Using Automated Conductivity Monitoring, Leachate Collection, Irrigation, and Injection: Alternative Methods for In-Situ Remediation –– Presentation
Ion Ratiu, GeoGrid Environmental Inc. - Efficient Ex-Situ Salt-Impacted Soil Remediation Technology – Presentation
Christian Belanger, Biogenie - Use of Enhanced Reductive Dechlorination to treat PCE in a Shallow Sand and Silt Aquifer – Presentation
Ilya Biniowsky, SLR Consulting
Miscellaneous
- Segregation of Metals Contamination for Remediation by Cluster Analysis – Presentation
Peter Reid, Hemmera - Innovative & Sustainable Approach to Barrier Wall Installation at an Active Rail Yard – Presentation
Jason Christensen, Keystone Environmental - Proof-of-Concept Evaluation Process: Destruction of DNAPL Through a Green Technology-PCE Source Area Bioremediation – Presentation
Kent Armstrong, BioStryke® Remediation - Are You Ready to Retire? – Presentation
Darcy Cuthill, Tervita
Oil Sands Remediation
- Oil Sands Remediation – What’s the (end) Point?– Presentation
Chris Powter, Oil Sands Research and Information Network - Oil Sands Tailings Reclamation: How to Include Non-Technical Risk and Opportunities into the Corporate Decision Making Process – Presentation
Anjum Mullick, WorleyParsons - Wetland Reclamation Challenges in the Oil Sands – Presentation
Markus Thormann, WorleyParsons - Developing a Watershed Approach to Reclaiming Oil Sands Mine Sites – Presentation
Preston McEachern, Tervita
Phytoremediation
- PEPS (PGPR-Enhanced Phytoremediation Systems): The Chemistry and Biology Behind Successful Phytoremediation of Petroleum and Salt Impacted Soils – Presentation
Bruce Greenberg, University of Waterloo - The Use of Biosurfactants as Soil Amendments to Enhance Phytoremediation of Weathered Petroleum Hydrocarbon (PHC) Contaminated Soils – Presentation
Jola Gurska, Stantec - Phytoremediation of Nitrogen Impacted Soil and Groundwater at an Industrial Plant Site – Presentation
Kelly Kneteman, Matrix Solutions
Arctic Sites
- Arctic Sites Phase 1 Environmental Site Assessment & Remote Sensing Pilot Project– Presentation
Reagan Stoddart, Imperial Oil - Site Assessment, Development of Site Specific Criteria and Remediation Tendering of Three Former Mineral Exploration Sites in Nunavut– Presentation
Abbas Fakhar Syed, EBA, A Tetra Tech Company - Soil Invertebrate Distribution in Sub-Arctic Soils; a Field Study –– Presentation
Gemma Leighton-Boyce, WorleyParsons
Stablization and Solidification
- Successful Completion of Stabilization and Infra-structure Construction at the Sydney Tar Ponds – Presentation
Shouvik Gangopadhyay, ECC - Bench Scale In-situ Solidification/Stabilization Treatability Tests Using ANSI 16.1– Presentation
David Winslow, GZA GeoEnvironmental Inc. - Solidification/Stabilization Cement Additive and Test Methods– Presentation
Matt Geary, CETCO